Alexander Alekhine Quotes

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Chess demands total concentration

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Art is not a pastime, it is a duty with respect to the people, a public affair

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.